#critical

The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land we inhabit are not only critical elements in the quality of life we enjoy - they are a reflection of the majesty of our Creator. ↗

— Rick Perry

#breathe #creator #critical #drink #elements

I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#engaging #hate #hypocritical #i #people

Those who are critical of Alliance are the same people who have done nothing for 30 years. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#critical #done #nothing #people #same

I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#around #critical #describe #distance #experience

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#arrive #critical #cynical #either #heritage

Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted is, I believe, the chief task of philosophy, and the task that makes philosophy a worthwhile activity. ↗

— Peter Singer

#philosophy #age

everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death ↗

— Thomas Bernhard

#critical-thinking #pain #patience #death

If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant past Security in human systems we're told will always always last Emotions are the sail and blind faith is the mast Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast." (History Will Teach Us Nothing) ↗

— Sting

#captivity #critical-thinking #freedom #history #politics

Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation, the more unreservedly one grasps the individual as a self-contained and dynamic entity, the closer one draws to that in the individual which is really no longer individual. ↗

— Theodor W. Adorno

#sociology

The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#being #danger #hindrance #kind #like